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Elon Musk is going to Tesla Gigafactory Berlin to boost hiring effort, will personally interview candidates

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that he is going to Tesla Gigafactory Berlin today to boost the local hiring effort, and he will personally interview candidates. Tesla’s vision of massive factories have many advantages in terms of economies of scale, but they do offer challenges when it comes to hiring. Every market has a limited pool of qualified workers, even with these higher-than-usual…
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Tesla obtains approval on Model Y made in China — pointing to imminent launch

Tesla has received approval from the Chinese government to register its new Model Y made in China, pointing to the imminent start of production. As we previously reported, Tesla has taken a new vehicle introduction strategy for Model Y. Unlike previous vehicle programs, which were launched in different markets with vehicles imported from Tesla’s Fremont factory in California, Tesla is only…
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Tesla (TSLA) receives massive new order of Tesla Semi electric trucks — biggest yet?

Tesla (TSLA) has received a massive new order of Tesla Semi electric trucks from a truck-leasing company. It might be its biggest order for the Tesla Semi program yet. When Tesla launched the Tesla Semi in 2017, the automaker used the same reservation model that made it successful with passenger electric vehicles. However, Tesla made sure that a reservation would be a real show of interest in…
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Quick Charge Podcast: November 4, 2020

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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This 254 mph (408 km/h) electric motorcycle just set 11 new world records

Records were meant to be broken, and that’s exactly what six-time motorcycle racing world champion Max Biaggi did on the Voxan Wattman electric motorcycle. After an impressive performance this past weekend, he broke five world records and set six more new records. We first began reporting on the Voxan Wattman electric motorcycle earlier this summer when the bike was being prepped for the land…
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